Example sentences of "more [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Nigel Clough withdrawn into a defensive position , Forest looked more solid at the back — even though they conceded a 12th minute Rod Wallace goal that gave Leeds fleeting hope of registering their first away win for almost 12 months . |
| 2 | We 've re-aligned our cost space which makes us more profitable at the existing levels of demand and potentially very profitable indeed er er when you consider that we have the capacity to respond to any upturn in demand without increasing our costs . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've proved we can do it , and we 're more innovative at the moment than the Americans , ’ says Steve , who admits his career would have been far more difficult without the success of groups like Soul II Soul . |
| 4 | You may think of Simply Red as being more hollow at the centre than wild and crazy guys , but this shows neat exuberance and Hucknall 's increasingly inspired songs . |
| 5 | Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there . |
| 6 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 7 | low eighty , low eighty it various from season to season as upholstery is more popular or less popular as beds are more popular at the |
| 8 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 9 | to back him through thick and thin , but not before I had consulted the eight or nine senior legal Members ( some of them more distinguished at the Bar than myself ) and got their promises of support . |
| 10 | A calm relaxing feeling flows throughout the body as though lead weights were slowly pulling the body down into the chair , heavier and heavier , more and more calm at every moment . |
| 11 | On Aug. 30 he was more explicit at a press conference , urging political solutions and a calm and consistent policy to prevent escalation , and warning that " any resort to military force is unacceptable " . |
| 12 | It must be more democratic at every level . |
| 13 | But Sir George , as Roland had calculated , was more alarmed at the thought of pilgrimages of Leonora Stern than aware of the possibilities of Cropper and Blackadder . |
| 14 | But although it could be seen as the fashion of protest — ‘ what could be more defiant at a time of recession and social decay than seemingly lavish , luxurious clothes ? ’ |
| 15 | There is dispute as to whether cutting is more likely at the time of menstruation ( Simpson 1976 ) . |
| 16 | He might have been a minor orator , not quite in the senate , nor yet on the stage , more likely at the Bar of some prosperous provincial town ; in fact he had made his early and relatively modest pile in some wholesale business . |
| 17 | Attempts to make this cost reflection more sophisticated at a later date were , however , jeopardised by internal BEA politics , which reduced initiatives to the lowest common denominator acceptable to the Area Boards . |
| 18 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 19 | These are said to indicate two broad phases , one apparently following the line of the mid to late second-century north-south cross-street , which is especially prominent towards the western end of the defended enclosure , the other seemingly having its own distinctive alignment more akin to the line of the road running north from the main crossroads ; this is more obvious at the eastern end , and might therefore be earlier in origin . |
| 20 | This needs to be said , because some churches feel more competent at the analysis than the action . |
| 21 | Species shoals ensure males and females develop together making spawning more feasible at a future date . |
| 22 | Benny had been even more astounded at the questions Patsy felt free to ask . |
| 23 | He was far more impressed at the fair in Guérande , an old fortified town north-west of St Nazaire , which he visited during his walking tour of Brittany with Du Camp in 1847 . |
| 24 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 25 | ‘ I considered it more important at the time , ’ he confesses . |
| 26 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 27 | Bottom currents were probably weak throughout the glacial episodes , but evidence from both the northern Rockall Trough and the Faeroe -Shetland Channel suggests that the bottom currents became more vigorous at the onset of an interglacial regime as temperatures increased . |
| 28 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 29 | You need to be far more dynamic at the front , launching yourself at all sorts of angles . |
| 30 | The world champion may not be worried about the £500 fine handed out for throwing the last game of his bizarre straight-games loss to Jahangir Khan in the final of last month 's Stuttgart Open , but he should be more concerned at the zero computer points assigned him for the Stuttgart tournament , which may enable Jahangir to overtake him in the New Year rankings , plus the fact that any further misdemeanour will probably mean draconian punishment . |